Chaslands: Pioneering Days in Southern New Zealand

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Page 30Yet to the inexperienced, a two hundred pound bag of flour, deep planted in the
clay and to be hoisted therefrom on to an already well-loaded dray, would appear
a fairly awkward proposition. It was all in the night's work to Bill. His house was ...

Page 35... these at school, and were troubled by them, too, a matter looked upon with
contempt by the boys. But all regalia would be in evidence at the picnic, for all
parents would 35 be there. For, come by gig or dray or buggy; 5—The School
Picnic.

Page 62A dray, team and all, could well have sunk out of sight in the mud of those roads.
In fact, the only occasions when any considerable part of the wheels showed
above the mud level were when one or other or both went over a great root or
rock; ...